Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Act 2019 (57 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Provisions commencing when new treaty comes into force

Part 16   Amendment of the Navigation Act 2012

Navigation Act 2012

82   Subsection 14(1)

Insert:

Australian-based foreign Greater Sunrise vessel means a foreign Greater Sunrise vessel that operates from an Australian port.

foreign-based foreign Greater Sunrise vessel means a foreign Greater Sunrise vessel that operates from a port in a foreign country other than Timor-Leste.

foreign Greater Sunrise vessel means a foreign vessel that:

(a) does not have the nationality of Timor-Leste; and

(b) is engaged in Petroleum Activities (within the meaning of the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) in the Greater Sunrise special regime area; and

(c) is at, or travelling to or from, a Special Regime Installation (within the meaning of that treaty).

Greater Sunrise special regime area has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty means the Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea done at New York on 6 March 2018, as in force from time to time.

Note: The Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty could in 2019 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).